President Donald J. Trump has issued a new Executive Order directing that classical architecture serve as the default style for Federal civic buildings across the United States….
1 September 2025
A Banksy outdoor installation awaits its next appearance: a prime spot in the newly refurbished London Museum in Smithfield…
31 August 2025
A sculpture by Barbara Hepworth of tremendous aesthetic and historical importance has been saved for the nation following a successful public appeal….
19 August 2025
A monumental new work by the Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been installed on an active Shell gas platform…
14 August 2025
To speak of British art’s transformation in the 1980s without acknowledging Doris Saatchi is to tell half the story. Born Doris Lockhart in 1947, the Glasgow-raised….
6 August 2025
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has announced the dispersal of its entire collection to three major institutions: New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum….
4 August 2025
For over half a century, Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis built a collection of 20th-century art not… Read More
31 August 2025
Now in its fourth decade, the British Art Fair returns this autumn as both a marketplace and a living archive…. Read More
24 July 2025
Christie’s first-half figures for 2025 reveal a market holding steady—$2.1 billion in sales, mirroring 2024’s tally. Yet, stability comes with… Read More
17 July 2025
Artlyst News Desk: Art Basel Qatar has confirmed the launch details of its highly anticipated Qatar edition, scheduled to debut… Read More
9 July 2025
Sylvain Amic, recently appointed director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, has died suddenly at the age of 58. The… Read More
1 September 2025
Hilary Weston, whose discerning eye and quiet generosity shaped Canada’s cultural landscape, has died at 83. A business leader, philanthropist… Read More
5 August 2025
Vincent van Gogh. Born 30 March 1853 (Died 29 July 1890) in the rural Dutch village of Zundert, his existence was… Read More
29 July 2025
Fifteen summers after Nan Goldin first brought David Armstrong’s world to the Parc des Ateliers, his photographs return to Arles… Read More
23 July 2025
Double Vision brings together two paintings, both known as The Guitar Player.
Daily 10am-5pm
Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th-century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
This focused exhibition is the first to consider the lasting influence that Van Gogh has had on Kiefer.
Extraordinary sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams
Gated Canyons is the highly anticipated exhibition by acclaimed artist Rachel Jones, the first contemporary solo show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space.
A Capsule in Time by Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)
Experience the power and glamour of John Singer Sargent’s portraits in Kenwood’s new exhibition, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits.
daily 10am-5pm
Large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur presents over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry (1960).
Jean-François Millet began his career by painting idylls in imitation of 18th-century French painters but was increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice.
18 August 2025
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy as the centrepiece…
4 August 2025
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but inevitably isolated, individual.
30 July 2025
Textile art, often regarded as a peripheral craft, is currently riding a wave of critical appreciation. After ‘Unravelled’ at the Barbican and Tadek Beutlich…
27 July 2025
1989 was ‘Museums Year’ in the United Kingdom, a celebration of our cultural institutions which inspired Lubaina Himid to make a body of work that was displayed at Chisenhale Gallery in London in the summer of that year.
22 July 2025
Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, based on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
21 July 2025
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions.
14 July 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne is a complex show that breaks out of its historical box to include contemporary artists… Read More
1 July 2025
When I walked into Jenny Saville’s exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin.
24 June 2025
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
Andy Warhol: My True Story, the summer show at Newlands House Gallery, is a humanising portrait of one of Modern Art’s most sacred monsters.
10 June 2025
For the first time in the UK, a public institution has dedicated its space to a full-scale retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara, the Japanese artist whose enigmatic, wide-eyed children…
9 June 2025
A major retrospective at Kunsthalle Praha, And We’ll Never Be Parted, redefines the artistic partnership of the 20th-century Abstract painters Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung….
7 June 2025
One hundred years after John Singer Sargent’s death, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits arrives at Kenwood House in North London with bold bravado….
20 May 2025
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
Undersea is the latest exhibition on a maritime theme, curated by art historian James Russell, for the Hastings Contemporary. It completes a trilogy following Seaside Modern (2021) and (2022).
22 April 2025
Archibald Knox (1864-1933) is best known as a designer for The Silver Studio and then for Liberty & Co. in the early years of the 20th century,
22 April 2025
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Grayson Perry has always been a master of holding up a carnival mirror to society, and his latest exhibition, Delusions of Grandeur, at the Wallace Collection…
26 March 2025
The Serpentine Galleries have announced a major presentation of new works by David Hockney, opening at Serpentine North from March 12 to August 23…
1 September 2025
A decade after its conception during nocturnal talks with MONA founder David Walsh, Conrad Shawcross’s The Nervous System (Umbilical) (2025) emerges as the climactic act of his 25-year Rope Makers cycle…
6 August 2025
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park this Autumn, opening on 17 September and running until 2 November 2025
6 August 2025
The National Gallery of Ireland throws open the doors to Picasso’s private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works that chart the artist’s reinvention across studios from Montmartre to Mougins…
24 July 2025
From October 17, 2025, to March 2, 2026, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will host a sweeping survey of Gerhard Richter’s work—the first to fully span his six-decade career….
16 July 2025
On 1 August, Lucy Sparrow will serve up her latest felt fabrication—a fully detailed hand-stitched fish and chip shop—at Mayfair’s Lyndsey Ingram Gallery…
11 July 2025
CLOSE is presenting two concurrent solo exhibitions celebrating the life and legacy of the late British abstract artist Jane Harris (1956-2022)….
4 July 2025
In a bold and meticulous act of historical fabulation, Pablo Bronstein has turned his attention to one of the most elusive architectural enigmas in religious history…
30 June 2025
When Anselm Kiefer first traced Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps at 18, clutching a travel grant and a head full of visions, he found more than inspiration…
24 June 2025
To mark what would have been Jordan’s 70th year, a new exhibition unveils an unseen archive of images tracing her journey from childhood to Punk legend….
18 June 2025
Liverpool – The 13th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, titled BEDROCK, will unfold across the city from 7 June to 14 September 2025…
6 June 2025
As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fifth edition (6-8 June), we present an alphabetical selection of standout recommended exhibitions across the capital…
5 June 2025
“We love the 21st century. It is our best century so far!” So proclaim Gilbert & George, the irreverent duo who have spent over five decades holding up a mirror to modern life….
1 June 2025
The V&A’s new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens to the public on 31 May 2025.
28 May 2025
The Design Museum is set to transport visitors back to the birthplace of 1980s subculture with Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s…
21 May 2025
Autumn exhibitions at the major museums and galleries in London will feature an array of blockbuster shows
1 September 2025
September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025.
30 August 2025
London’s streets have long been a battleground for visual dissent, but few have weaponised pop iconography as precisely as Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face…
7 August 2025
There are carnivals and an explosion of seaside joy happening in very British style because it’s LGBTQ+ season, and that now includes Margate….
6 August 2025
For two decades, Emma Critchley’s subject has been the underwater world: she describes herself as ‘an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship…
4 August 2025
This is Sorcha Carey’s first Folkestone Triennial as curator, but the festival has a firm reputation now as this is its sixth edition.
21 July 2025
The Serpentine gallery has spawned twins, by two very different architects: One a Bangladeshi woman from Dhaka, Marina Tabassum, the other a well-known Englishman, Sir Peter Cook….
16 July 2025
If you have any time off work this summer, please visit these art exhibitions, which are due to close in August. All the exhibitions have been singled out by the Artlyst team as well worth a visit.
14 July 2025
I love London in the Summer, though many might argue. I love the art in parks, the getting out and discovering new lost and unfound museums and galleries…
25 June 2025
Mark Woods (b. 1961, Surrey) is a British artist whose work straddles the charged space between adornment, provocation, and artifice.
25 June 2025
Linder—first weaponised scissors and glue in the mid-1970s, hacking through women’s magazines and softcore pornography to create photomontages…
16 June 2025
Art, education and environment. These are the three pillars at the heart of the newly launched not-for-profit Goodwood Art Foundation near Chichester, Sussex.
2 June 2025
Athens: Plásmata 3 ‘We’ve met before, haven’t we?’ Pedion tou Areos Park has unveiled a wide-ranging exhibition backed by Onassis Stegi. This year’s edition becomes a stage for the uncanny…
31 May 2025
Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will open outside London and throughout the UK in Summer 2025.
30 May 2025
Manifesta 16 Ruhr will open on the summer solstice, 21 June 2026, transforming Germany’s post-industrial Ruhr Area…
30 April 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 2025
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2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide.
5 January 2025
Contemporary Art has an energy that pulses and a creativity that collides with culture to ignite something extraordinary. Nowhere is this fusion more electrifying than in the world’s premier art fairs….
3 January 2025
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape…
31 December 2024
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
26 October 2021
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
1 June 2020
Archives never lie, but they often surprise. Eighteen unassuming boxes marked “Fashion,” rescued from a Berkshire barn after David Armstrong… Read More
23 July 2025
Richard Calvocoressi’s prologue to this well-researched biography states that if Douglas Cooper and Roland Penrose had been able to “bury their differences….
16 July 2025
In Formula + Fetish, the first comprehensive monograph devoted to British artist Mark Woods, readers are drawn into a world where the decorative and the disturbing walk in lockstep….
10 July 2025
At seventeen, Anselm Kiefer embarked on a pilgrimage—funded by a travel grant—that would quietly shape his trajectory. He first followed… Read More
26 June 2025
